[GNC] Today's search....for .lck

[Michael or Penny Novack]

On 8/1/2023 11:12 AM, Mahon Finbar via gnucash-user wrote:
> GNU FEB 12 2019.gnucash.20210219151108.gnucash.LCK
>
> I did a restart of the pc and did the search again for .lck and this 
> is is what I get.....
>
> It is marked modified on 1.03.2021, type LCK file, 0 KB
>
> Further mystery. I appreciate your request to slow down, and I want 
> to, but the sequence of events, since the beginning of this saga, is 
> so strange.
>
> Thanks again for your patience, Barry 


If you do a search for all files with file extension ".lck" what reason 
do you have to suppose that it is a lock file for a gnucach file? I will 
repeat, this is a rather common method for preventing simultaneous 
access to a resource. Do you KNOW that none of your other applications 
are using the lock file method?

Gnucash will create a lock file for file "filename.gnucash" with the 
name "filename.lck" in the same directory that the file is in. You 
should search for "filename.lck" and not just ".lck". If you do not know 
the name of your gnucash data file, you have a different problem (when 
you first created a set of books under gnucash, your first save should 
have been a "save as" giving it a meaningful name and placing it in the 
directory of your choice -- but not knowing to do that isn't really a 
gnucash problem as much as a problem creating files from any 
application. In other words, just like wen you are creating a new 
document using your word processor, what do you name it and where do you 
put it)

Michael D Novack